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Berliners were punished twice – by Hitler and by the Allies

With its large Jewish population, Berlin was never pro-fascist – which may have influenced Hitler to remodel the city which the Allies then flattened

Goebbels’s wrecked Ministry of Propaganda building in Berlin, July 1945. [Getty Images] 
issue 18 June 2022
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  • Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Centre of the World

    Sinclair McKay

    Viking, pp. 464, £20

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